Iowa News in Brief Highlights Local Events and Obituaries
Decorah marks eightieth birthday with open house for Mrs D H Leach at Freeport hosted by her daughter and son in law. Lillian Meierd and Alfred Hansmeier circulate June primary nominations in Wauk on for county recorder and auditor. Xavier high school presents Little Women next Sunday and student newspaper issues its first edition. Belle Plaine hosts Fifth district Knights of Pythias meeting with officers from Marengo and Willamsburg in attendance. Independence reports death of Eva Crowell Frush 81, long time resident with funeral today. Presbyterial World Mission meeting set for May 2-3 at First Presbyterian with speakers from Chicago Sioux City and Alaska. 21 towns in northeast Iowa involved.
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Lillian Meierkerd
Alfred Hansmeier
County Recorder
Auditor
Dpyersville
Xavier High School
Carmen Westermeyer
Juanita Augustine
Virginia Westemeier
Norma Whitehead
Mary Gillon
Betty Mueller
Mary Ungs
Violet Woodmann
Kathleen George
Rosemary Bell
Mary Esther Schmitz
William Tegeler
Walter Hall
James Zirbes
Charles Grawe
Xavier News
Mary E. Kean
Ruth Hemmer
Mae Ferring
Clarabelle Lees
Joan Schermer
Valerian Soppe
Armella Mescher
Belle Plaine
Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 147
Poweshiek Lodge No. 198
Brooklyn
R. R Hibbs
Marengo
E. C. Edwards
Willamsburg
F D. Sheppard
Cedar Rapids
Independence
Eva Crowell Frush
Eva Mann
George and
Dorothy Mann
Plattville
Wis
Humans Select School
William W. Crowell
Storm Lake
George H. Frush
Waterloo
Foster Thompson
Sioux City
Walter Soboloff
University of
Miniature Crosley Shelvador Display At Standard Tire
The Crosley Shelvador 1940 freezer includes a miniature cold storage unit holding 8 to 10 pounds of meat or two chickens. It features seven refrigeration zones, an electro saver, hermetic seal, thick insulation, full depth shelves, and a door shelf. A five year warranty backs this economical unit with reported operating costs of 50 to 75 cents monthly.
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Crosley Shelvador
Standard Tire Company
Crosley
Lake Breeze
Electrolux
Brandon Telephon e Office Robbed of 11 Dollars
The Brandon telephone office was robbed of 11 dollars in cash early Thursday. Tax money was kept in a small box atop the switchboard while operators Mr and Mrs Jay Kizer were out of the room eating breakfast. Charles Gould 81 died of a heart attack in Anamosa after gardening and listening to a radio program. He was born in Friendsville Illinois and lived in New Sharon and Anamosa before retirement from the state reformatory. He was a longtime Odd Fellow and church member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Jay Kizer
Anamosa
Charles Gould
Miller
K. Delahooke
Methodist Church
Masonic Lodge
Riverside Cemetery
Gould
Charles Cramen Gould
Friendsville
Ill
Margaret W. Armour
New Sharon
Town Central Railroad
State Reformatory
Local Family Man Dies. Xavier Student Wins Essay Honor
The obituary notes a local man with wife deceased in 1933 leaving two children Mrs J L Sheesley and Armour of Dubuque and three grandchildren. In other news Harold Schuster, a Xavier high school freshman in Dyersville, won first prize in a Current Science essay contest.
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Masonic Lodge
J. L. Sheesley
Armour
Dubuque
Dyersville
Harold Schuster
Xavier High School
Current Science
This Size Family Is Real Gold Mine For Census Takers
Houston reports District Census Supervisor Frank Sharp revealed a 60 year old man and his 58 year old wife have 24 children with a 25th expected. The 14 sons and 10 daughters have lived at home in a six room rural dwelling and are in good health. Names withheld for confidentiality.
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Houston
Tex
Frank Sharp
Sharp
Railroad collision prompts lax rule observance inquiry
Washington AP reports the Interstate Commerce Commission safety bureau found lax rule observance in a January 19 rear end collision of two New York Central passenger trains at Wickliffe Ohio. Ten people were injured including two passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bureau of Safety
New York Central
Wickliffe
Burglars Lock Marshal Up In Powell Powell Barroom Robbery
Two safecrackers spent ample time prying open the Powell barroom door and taking a safe with 600 dollars. They locked the night marshal Wells Vaught in the jail after making it appear they needed a place to sleep.
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Powell
Wyo
Wells Vaught
Believes Hull Would Accept Nomination
A high official and close friend of Secretary Hull believes he would accept the Democratic presidential nomination if President Roosevelt declines. The remark surfaced in Washington and ties Hull to the Roosevelt era politics.
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Hull
Washington
State Department
Roosevelt
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